Comment Re:Dark Tan? - Long hair? (Score 1) 964
Wow, that was the first thing that's actually made me laugh out loud in quite a while. Nicely done!
Comment Re:Screw them ALL! (Score 1) 116
I run Boxee on a 3 year old Mac Mini, though it's Intel-based, and it works just fine. If you feel like hiring someone to update the code that's necessary for decoding everything on PPC, then feel free. I'm sure they'd be happy to help you out once you provide the resources to get someone "off of his/her non-collective butt". But, once you start wanting to view HD content that's heavily compressed, good luck using that old PPC system without massive stuttering.
Submission + - Revived microbe may hold clues for ET lifeforms
krou writes: Science Daily is reporting that a microbe, Herminiimonas glaciei, buried some 3kms under glacial ice in Greenland, and believed to have been frozen for some 120,000 years, has been brought back to life. The microbe, some ten to fifty times smaller than E. coli, was brought back over several months by slowly incubating it at slightly-increasing temperatures. After 11.5 months, the microbe began to replicate. Scientists believe that it could help us understand how life may exist on other planets. Dr. Jennifer Loveland-Curtze, who headed up the team of scientists from Pennsylvania State University, said: "These extremely cold environments are the best analogues of possible extraterrestrial habitats. The exceptionally low temperatures can preserve cells and nucleic acids for even millions of years. H. glaciei is one of just a handful of officially described ultra-small species and the only one so far from the Greenland ice sheet; studying these bacteria can provide insights into how cells can survive and even grow under extremely harsh conditions, such as temperatures down to -56C, little oxygen, low nutrients, high pressure and limited space." She also added that it "isn't a pathogen and is not harmful to humans, but it can pass through a 0.2 micron filter, which is the filter pore size commonly used in sterilization of fluids in laboratories and hospitals. If there are other ultra-small bacteria that are pathogens, then they could be present in solutions presumed to be sterile. In a clear solution very tiny cells might grow but not create the density sufficient to make the solution cloudy."
Comment Re:Federal overreaching their powers (Score 1) 780
My point is, this is a FEDERAL crime they're speaking of. This is definitely something that can be handled and prosecuted at the state level. This has zero effect on national security or interstate commerce...
I'll have to disagree here. This does affect interstate commerce. Let's say that I live in Maryland, and I log into myspace.com, which is a server that's hosted by a commercial entity in Los Angeles. If I then proceed to use their commercial service to harass a person who lives in Texas, that certainly qualifies as "interstate commerce".
Not that I agree with the premise of this bill, but I would have to say that this is within the scope of the federal government's designated powers.
Comment Re:Email Past It's Prime (Score 1) 319
Email has become a victim of its (or is it it's) own success.
It's its.
